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Akata Witch

Okorafor-Mbachu, Nnedi
Call Number: YA

A girl living in Nigeria discovers she has magical powers, and is put to the test when asked to find and capture a serial killer.

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The Amulet of Samarkand

Stroud, Jonathan.
Call Number: xy

Nathaniel, a magician's apprentice, summons up the djinni Bartimaeus and instructs him to steal the Amulet of Samarkand from the powerful magician Simon Lovelace. 

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The blue sword

McKinley, Robin.
Call Number: xy

Harry, bored with her sheltered life in the remote orange-growing colony of Daria, discovers magic in herself when she is kidnapped by a native king with mysterious powers.

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The Bone Witch

Chupeco, Rin
Call Number: YA

Tea is different from the other witches in her family. Her gift for necromancy makes her a bone witch, who are feared and ostracized in the kingdom. For theirs is a powerful, elemental magic that can reach beyond the boundaries of the living—and of the human. Great power comes at a price, forcing Tea to leave her homeland to train under the guidance of an older, wiser bone witch. There, Tea puts all of her energy into becoming an asha, learning to control her elemental magic and those beasts who will submit by no other force. And Tea must be strong—stronger than she even believes possible. Because war is brewing in the eight kingdoms, war that will threaten the sovereignty of her homeland…and threaten the very survival of those she loves.

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The book of three

Alexander, Lloyd.
Call Number: x Ed.d

Taran, Assistant Pig-Keeper to a famous oracular sow, sets out on a hazardous mission to save Prydain from the forces of evil. 

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Coraline

Gaiman, Neil.
Call Number: YA

Looking for excitement, Coraline ventures through a mysterious door into a world that is similar, yet disturbingly different from her own, where she must challenge a gruesome entity in order to save herself, her parents, and the souls of three others. 

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Eragon

Paolini, Christopher
Call Number: YA

In Alagaesia, a fifteen-year-old boy of unknown lineage called Eragon finds a mysterious stone that weaves his life into an intricate tapestry of destiny, magic, and power, peopled with dragons, elves, and monsters.

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The golden compass

Pullman, Philip, 1946-
In a world something like ours in the late 19th century, a girl named Lyra and her daemon set off to save a kidnapped friend. What she doesn't know is that her recently discovered parents are caught up in a battle that will shake the very foundation of not only her world, but many others, and that she is destined to play an important role in that battle.
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Graceling

Cashore, Kristin.

In a world where some people are born with extreme and often-feared skills called Graces, Katsa struggles for redemption from her own horrifying Grace, the Grace of killing, and teams up with another young fighter to save their land from a corrupt king. 

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Grave mercy

LaFevers, Robin.
Call Number: YA

In the fifteenth-century kingdom of Brittany, seventeen-year-old Ismae escapes from the brutality of an arranged marriage into the sanctuary of the convent of St. Mortain, where she learns that the god of Death has blessed her with dangerous gifts--and a violent destiny. 

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The Graveyard Book

Gaiman, Neil

Nobody Owens is a normal boy, except that he has been raised by ghosts and other denizens of the graveyard.

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Harry Potter and the sorcerer's stone

Rowling, J. K.
Call Number: xy

Rescued from the outrageous neglect of his aunt and uncle, a young boy with a great destiny proves his worth while attending Hogwarts School for Wizards and Witches. 

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The hidden oracle

Riordan, Rick,
Call Number: YA

After angering his father Zeus, the god Apollo is cast down from Olympus. He must learn to survive in the modern world until he can somehow find a way to regain Zeus's favor.

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Leviathan

Westerfeld, Scott

This young adult novel has action, adventure, a heroine in disguise, a prince on the run, giant monsters, intrigue, strange machines, and just enough World War I history to get you in trouble in history class.

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Red queen

Aveyard, Victoria,
Call Number: YA

In a world divided by blood--those with common, Red blood serve the Silver-blooded elite, who are gifted with superhuman abilities--seventeen-year-old Mare, a Red, discovers she has an ability of her own. To cover up this impossibility, the king forces her to play the role of a lost Silver princess and betroths her to one of his own sons. But Mare risks everything and uses her new position to help the Scarlet Guard --a growing Red rebellion--even as her heart tugs her in an impossible direction. 

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Sabriel

Nix, Garth.

Sabriel, daughter of the necromancer Abhorsen, must journey into the mysterious and magical Old Kingdom to rescue her father from the Land of the Dead. 

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Seraphina: A Novel

Hartman, Rachel
Call Number: YA

Dragons and humans have drawn up a tenuous treaty that allows for peace in the kingdom of Goredd. Musician Seraphina Dombegh just joined the kingdom’s court when a member of the royal family is murdered. Serephina gets drawn into the investigation with the extremely intelligent Prince Lucian Kiggs, but as they get closer to the truth, the secret to Seraphina’s talent is in danger of being revealed.

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Shadow and Bone

Bardugo, Leigh
Call Number: YA

Orphaned by the Border Wars, Alina Starkov is taken from obscurity and her only friend, Mal, to become the protegé of the mysterious Darkling, who trains her to join the magical elite in the belief that she is the Sun Summoner, who can destroy the monsters of the Fold.

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Strange the Dreamer.

Taylor, Laini.
Call Number: YA

Strange the Dreamer is the story of the aftermath of a war between gods and men, a mysterious city stripped of its name, a mythic hero with blood on his hands, a young librarian with a singular dream, a girl every bit as dangerous as she is in danger, alchemy and blood candy, nightmares and godspawn, moths and monsters, friendship and treachery, love and carnage. Welcome to Weep. 

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Twilight

Meyer, Stephenie, 1973-
Call Number: YA

Book one in a four-part series introduces Bella Swan and her vampire boyfriend Edward Cullen. The story offers an irresistible combination of romance and suspense, with a supernatural twist thrown in. 

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Uprooted

Novik, Naomi.
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A Wrinkle in Time

L'Engle, Madeleine
Call Number: x Ed.c

Meg Murry and her friends become involved with unearthly strangers and a search for Meg's father, who has disappeared while engaged in secret work for the government.